Oedipus Vs Odysseus

How can one compare two people and call them hero’s without ever thinking about all the things that they have been through. Many people, time after time have argued that these men were just simple men, doing what they needed to do, to get what they wanted. I must mention that I disagree, because these men, although maybe not having any outstanding physical or supernatural characteristics, still endured, and lived through a hard and cursed time, where they were not liked, and someone was prosecuting them. Odysseus, with Poseidon, the god of the great oceans. And Oedipus, with the people of Thebes, and his own wretched destiny. Poseidon went against Odysseus, for his arrogance and his attitude towards the gods. The people of Thebes went against Oedipus, because he killed King Laúos (his own father), and he slept with his mother (and Laúos’ wife). His destiny followed him, because he was cursed from the moment he was born. The gods never gave him a chance, and when he tried to run away from his fate, he ended up fulfilling it.

Oedipus Rex was an orphan boy, who believed he was part of the Royal Family of Corinth, and he was granted the Ki

How can one compare two people and call them hero’s without ever thinking about all the things that they have been through. Many people, time after time have argued that these men were just simple men, doing what they needed to do, to get what they wanted. I must mention that I disagree, because these men, although maybe not having any outstanding physical or supernatural characteristics, still endured, and lived through a hard and cursed time, where they were not liked, and someone was prosecuting them. Odysseus, with Poseidon, the god of the great oceans. And Oedipus, with the people of Thebes, and his own wretched destiny. Poseidon went against Odysseus, for his arrogance and his attitude towards the gods. The people of Thebes went against Oedipus, because he killed King Laúos (his own father), and he slept with his mother (and Laúos’ wife). His destiny followed him, because he was cursed from the moment he was born. The gods never gave him a chance, and when he tried to run away from his fate, he ended up fulfilling it.

He was only a man, who was once abandoned, and mistreated by life who was raised to be a strong and perfectly normal man. Although he was quite arrogant at times, he was an intelligent and self-made man. He suffers many ironies, and he is put through the judgment of his own curse which he did not cause upon himself. He did nothing to deserve such a thing, but he did deal with it and he did face the truth and consequences of his actions. “Then once more I must bring what is dark to light”, Oedipus speaks, referring to the mystery of who killed King Laúos and referring to solving it by himself. This means many things. It’s a sign of what type of irony he has to deal with, since the answer to this mystery of who killed the king, is simple, and is always in front of him for him to solve. Oedipus never does though, because he doesn’t want to accept the truth, and others must make him realized the harsh truth. He doesn’t bring the dark to light, although he knows the answer, he doesn’t because he fails to accept the right answer. It is a sort of dramatic irony that he feels responsible for the death of the King, when the reality is; he is responsible for the death of his father.

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